PAMERA. 51 



brownish ; posterior pronotal lobe ochraceous, sparsely but deeply 



punctate, brownish antei'iorly, with 

 a central piceous liue which does 

 not reach posterior margin ; scu- 

 tellum castaneous, with either the 

 basal half black and a central black 

 line, or with a large central basal 

 spot, the basal half of lateral 

 margins and a central line black, 

 apex luteous ; corium pale ochra- 

 ceous, sparingly punctured with 

 brown, the lateral margins pale and 

 impunctate, a black spot near centre 

 of apical margin, attached to which 

 are some linear black punctures 

 more or less enclosing a subtriaugu- 

 lar pale spot at claval apex ; clavus 

 thickly and longitudinally brown- 

 punctured ; membrane greyish-white ; head beneath and sternum 

 piceous ; abdomen castaneous with a few transverse stigmatal 

 piceous spots ; anteuna3 and legs ochraceous ; apices of tarsi black, 

 coxae castaneous ; apex of rostrum piceous. 

 Length 7i raillim. 



Hah. Cfc*ylon; Peradeuiya (Green). Burma; Bhamo (Fea). — 

 Japan {Lewis). Seychelle Islands (Brit. 2Ihs.). 



766, Paromius exigims, Dist. (Pamera) Tr. E. S. 1883, p. 434. 



Allied to the preceding species {P. seycliellesus. Walk.), but 

 differing by the shorter and less elongate anterior lobe of the 

 pronotum ; the apical joint of the antennae distinctly infuscated ; 

 the whole of the body beneatli uniformly piceous ; all the femora 

 (excluding apices) more or less piceous ; membrane pale fuscous, 

 with the veins greyish. 



Length 7 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Tangalla (&V«ew). — Japan (Leim). 



Fig. 37. — Paromius sei/ohellesm. 



Genus PAMERA. 



Pamera, S'ai/ (part.), New Harm. hid. (1831) ; id. Compl. Writ, i, 

 p. 332 (1859) ; StM, En. Hem. iv, p. 144 (1874). 



Plociomerus, Amy. 8f Serv. Hem. p. 255 (1843) ; Fieb. Europ. Hem. 

 pp. 45 & 171 (1861). .. 



Subg. Diplonotus, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ah. Fork. 1872, no. 7, p. 51. 



Subg-. Orthtea, Ball. List Hem. ii, pp. 532 & 580 (1852). 



•Subg. Gyndes, Stdl, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiii, p. 314 note (1862). 



Type, P. vincta, Say. 



Bislrihution. Somewhat universally distributed. 



Allied to Paromius, but much less elongate and more robust in 

 form ; pronotal collar narrow ; head as long as anterior pronotal 

 lobe or a little longer. 



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